When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Roberto Martinez insists Everton’s lack of transfer activity is no cause for concern.

The Blues have added only two players to the first-team squad this summer, with Gerard Deulofeu and Tom Cleverley arriving at Goodison at the start of July.

Martinez has revealed that he wants to bring in three more players before the close of the transfer window on September 1 - but confirmed that no new signings will be made before the start of the new season tomorrow.

The Catalan is willing to wait until the end of the window to secure the “right targets” even though that would mean they miss Everton’s first four games of the season.

Blues supporters have grown anxious over the lack of transfer activity but when asked there was any worry at the club over a lack of business, Martinez said: “No.

“We worked really hard to get those two signings straight away because they were important. they were the ones we felt were needed in the group for different reasons.

“Then I wanted to assess the youngsters and give them an opportunity to show what they can do in the first-team and we have been able to do that in pre-season.

“From that point on it is making sure we bring in the right targets.

“It is not easy to get the players you want early in the window but I am not concerned at all.”

Everton manager Roberto Martinez is not panicking over lack of incomings so far

Martinez wants a new central defender, a playmaker and a striker and added: “There’s a real clarity that we need three new players and that’s what we’re going to work as hard as we can on from now until deadline day.

“The important thing is that we have a real continuity from what we’ve done in the last two seasons and we have that.

“We need to carry on and growing those players and that is the way we will be able to compete with teams with bigger budgets because of their participation in the Champions League.

“There’s always work done behind the scenes, that’s the nature of the transfer window. We are very clear in what we want and what we need.

“I’ve been very impressed with the young players but I think it’s fair to say we need to get some experience in that would help them further develop into what they can be.”